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Built on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, Kansai International Airport was Japan's first full-scale 24 hour airport. Opened in 1994, "Kanku" is, this year, celebrating its 10th anniversary boasting more than 19 million domestic and international passengers with 45 airlines from 32 countries and regions.
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Osaka is the home of instant ramen noodles! Nissin Foods, established in Osaka in 1948, was the first company in the world to make instant noodles and is the oldest and largest manufacturerer of instant food in Japan. The world's first instant noodle "Chicken Ramen" was introduced in 1958. And in 1971, the world's first cup noodle was born.
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Osaka has a vast number of shopping areas to choose from. Not only are there malls everywhere you turn but they ... have a large number of shopping arcades which are basically roofed shopping streets, these are seen all across Japan, but Osaka has the longest in the country. Tenjinbashi-suji stretches from the road approaching the Tenman-gu shrine and continues for 2.6km going north to south. It has all types of stores including commodities, clothing and catering outlets on both sides of the arcade. Other key shopping areas are Den Den Town the electronic and manga/anime district which is as good as if not better than Akihbara and the Umeda district which has the Hankyu Sanbangai shopping mall and Yodobashi Camera which is a huge electrical appliance store which also offers a vast range of fashion stores, restaurants and a Shonen Jump store.
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The above Osaka map shows Kansai Airport as the large artificial island the bottom section of the map. You cannot see any break in the urban land use between Osaka (cantered around the major river in the top right hand corner) around to Kobe (near the centre of the picture with the artificial islands coming out into the bay. Clicking on the map or link takes you to a larger version of the satellite image.
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"Osaka" can mean either the larger Osaka prefecture (大阪府 Ōsaka-fu), covered in a separate guide, or central Osaka city (大阪市 Ōsaka-shi), the topic of this guide. The city is administratively divided into 24 wards (区 ku), but in common usage the following divisions are more useful:
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Osaka is dedicated to that goal for every one of its customers. Skin and Body care, Facials, Body Wraps, Water Therapies, Japanese and Swedish massages, Shiatsu-Acupressure, Sports & Medical Massage, Acupuncture; all fulfilled and cleansed by the fresh extracted and formulated distilled waters and herbs for traditional treatments of Ayurvedic, Chinese, Tibetan, Herbal medicines that are all standardized by the FDA Standards.
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